Flavors Technology Incorporated

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Flavors Technology was founded in 1986. The initial product offering the company released was a direct memory interface that allowed symbolic processing computers to link with numerical processing computers in AI applications.

Based on work in this area, Dick Morley, Flavors' founder, saw the need for a massively parallel, real-time, rules processing engine. However, one of the major stumbling blocks with many parallel implementations was that the languages used to program them were based on serial architectures. Thus, in addition to a massively parallel machine, a language and a programming environment were required to provide better access to the processing power.

Autonomous Agents, a design concept finding its roots in the sciences of chaos and complexity, seemed an appropriate approach for a language and environment. The other requirement was that the system be real-time, with a fixed execution cycle for real-time applications.

The first PIM-based system was installed in a General Motors factory in 1991. Today, there are over 200 systems installed on a world-wide basis.